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Are you serious? That looks like the kind of optimization compilers could make — and did make, long before CPUs performed vector operations, in order to take full advantage of the bus width. Why would a programmer have to write code like that?

Looking at the Snow Leopard section of Apple's web site, the main selling point of the upcoming OS is performance. It looks like Apple has invested a lot in developing the performance enhancing technologies in 10.6. However, Apple points out that most of the technologies require developers to...